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NASAOSTM Taken Off Plane (5/21/2008)

The shipping container with the OSTM/Jason-2 spacecraft inside is offloaded from the aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The OSTM, or Ocean Topography Mission, on the Jason-2 satellite is a follow-on to Jason-1. It will take oceanographic studies of sea surface height into an operational mode for continued climate forecasting research and science and industrial applications. This satellite altimetry data will help determine ocean circulation, climate change and sea-level rise. OSTM is a joint effort by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation. OSTM/Jason-2 will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II 7320 from Vandenberg on June 15. April 29, 2008 Photo credit: NASA/Steve Greenberg, JPL


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Feed_id: /1/rss_feeds/NASA_Ostm_Multimedia_GALLERY/nasa_ostm_multimedia_gallery:08-04-30-3/123671_galleryxml_Feed.rss
Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ostm/multimedia/gallery/08-04-29-4.html
Date: 5/21/2008
Year: 2008
Rights: Public Domain
What: Jason 1
Where: California
Where: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Identifier: 228782main_OSTMcomingoffplane-hires_full
Addeddate: 2009-08-19 23:54:14
Publicdate: 2009-08-20 00:02:36
Keywords: OSTM, Airplane, Vandenberg; What -- Jason 1; Where -- California; Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

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